👧🏴☠️The Girl Who Belonged to the Sea 📿🌊
A Great THANK YOU to Katherine Quinn, Owl City Press, and NetGalley for allowing me to read this ARC. (I received both ebook and physical in exchange for an honest review.) This will also be posted on my Bookstagram (@cassietheghostluvsbooks) on publication day as well as my book blog (https://cassieshauntedlibrary.blogspo...) and reviews listed GoodReads and NetGalley.
This is a story about a woman who faces a life of nightmares each day she wakes from the one person who is supposed to protect her and her younger sister. Instead, Margrete finds that her life has only gotten more complicated with news that she's being wed - or sold off, really by her father to a Count. Is this her only means of escape? Can she truly capture freedom through forced marriage? Well, she can only hope. Or so she thought, when a mysterious pirate of all creatures, crashes the big day and takes her on board to an adventurous destiny she never knew existed.
Okay, I'm going to be a little shallow here but - have you looked at that beautiful cover? Have you really looked? It's breathtaking and it pulled me in so fast. I'm a lover of all things mythology and retellings of myths/fairy tales. Throw some pirates (or pirate heh) and you got me hooked.
From the get go, I knew this story was going to be interesting. The pacing was good, the flow kept me intrigued - and the then bam, more mayhem and a certain pirate stops the show and just - I had to slow myself down before I tore through the book too fast. Now, granted, I've seen a few saying there is just way too much Insta-love - hmm - and maybe, it is, for them. I'm not the biggest fan of Insta-Love myself. I'm not a teenager anymore and find the swoony eyes over two people who have no clue about the other kind of ridiculous. But no, I did not get Insta-Love with this. Maybe the chemistry built a bit fast for some people's taste but to me, I feel like it was more of a "hatred turned ally turned to something more" kind of thing happening. Think about it, truly think about what both characters wanted and maybe it's not so far fetched at all.
For me, I loved the story, loved the atmosphere and the wittiness of the characters. I admit, I wish there had been a bit more of the two getting to know each other better and maybe more of the side characters but I don't mind how it went either. Especially knowing this is only the first book (which not gonna lie, I got super excited by) it makes sense why some things were left unsaid or vague. I hope to explore more of the story, characters and world.
My Rating: 4.5 Stars Rounded up to 5! 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
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